Mushy peas

Mushy peas are not sophisticated and they're of little interest on their own, but dollop a spoon load next to a piping hot, straight out of the deep fat fryer, golden fillet of cod with chips and they set the plate alight.

I'm not alone in my appreciation of mushy peas. One blogger, an American living in England, agrees with me, even if she can't quite believe it herself, "There's something just so abominably, wonderfully wrong with them. Their colour should not appear outside of radioactive waste. They have no texture and a really weird flavour. But I love them. God help me, I'm going native."